New Orleans, La: Americans Rice Products Co., 2714 N. Peters Street, [circa 1921]. Oblong booklet, stapled in wrappers ( x cm.), [8] pages. Illustrated. Date from testimonial on page [2]. Printed throughout in brown ink. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook advertising Cream of Rice, with testimonials, recipes, and an emphasis on the 'food value' of the product, especially for children. Decorated light blue wrappers printed in dark blue and red.....

[New York]: Castoria, Centaur Liniment, Dr. Wei De Meyer, [1883]. Duedecimo (15.25 x 10 cm.), 32 pages. Advertisements. Various small illustrations throughout. Product cookbook promoting Centaur's Castoria and Dr. Wei de Meyer's Catarrh Cure, with recipes "adapted from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York". With testimonials, including one from P.T. Barnum. Some light spotting within. In red- and black-illustrated wrappers depicting "The Diver" with a small cord for hanging. Tiny.....

New York: Farrar Strauss, 1947. Octavo, 208 pages. Illustrated by Henry J. Stahlhut. FIRST EDITION. A "novel-plus-cookbook" created from a series of stories which appeared in Gourmet Magazine. Now a classic of food writing and a glimpse into Russian cooking. Ownership signature to front endpaper; otherwise fine in publisher's brown cloth; dust jacket with edgewear to the spine. Fine in a near very good dust jacket. With the bookseller's ticket.....

[Gloucester]: Procter Brothers, Publishers, 1882. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), 274, [38] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. ~ FIRST EDITION. An omnibus of information about the American seafood industry in the final decades of the 19th century, covering the fishermen and fishing industry of Gloucester, Massachusetts, at the tip of Cape Ann. The book contains lists of vessels operating; explains the value (economic, but also health-wise) of various types of seafood; tell.....

London: Printed for T. Wotton, at the Three Daggers in Fleet Street, 1723. Octavo (20 x 12.5 cm.), [8], 2-112, [8], 82, [14] pages; [A4, B-H8, I4, 2A-F8]. In two parts, each with separate register and pagination, and a final index. Two final advertisement leaves. Illustrated, with engraved head and tail pieces and initial letters. ~ FIRST EDITION. A major work of English royal cookery "by R. Smith, Cook (under.....